Hide And Seek: The Cast

10-01-2005 00:00

ABOUT THE CASTROBERT DE NIRO (David Callaway) launched his prolific motion picture career in Brian De Palma's The Wedding Party in 1969. By 1973 De Niro had twice won the New York Film Critics' Award for Best Supporting Actor in recognition of his critically acclaimed performances in Bang the Drum Slowly and Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets.In 1974, De Niro received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of the young Vito Corleone in The Godfather, Part II. In 1980 he won his second Oscar®, as Best Actor, for his extraordinary portrayal of Jake La Motta in Scorsese's Raging Bull. De Niro has earned Academy Award nominations for four additional films: as Travis Bickle in Scorsese's acclaimed Taxi Driver, as a Vietnam vet in Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter, as a catatonic patient brought to life in Penny Marshall's Awakenings, and in 1992 as Max Cady, an ex-con looking for revenge, in Scorsese's remake of the 1962 classic Cape Fear.

De Niro's distinguished body of work also includes performances in Elia Kazan's The Last Tycoon, Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900, Ulu Grosbard's True Confessions and Falling in Love, Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America, Scorsese's New York, New York, Goodfellas, and Casino, Terry Gilliam's Brazil, Roland Joffe's The Mission, and Brian De Palma's The Untouchables.De Niro also appeared in Alan Parker's Angel Heart, Martin Brest's Midnight Run, David Jones' Jacknife, Martin Ritt's Stanley and Iris, Neil Jordan's We're No Angels, Ron Howard's Backdraft, Michael Caton-Jones' This Boy's Life, John McNaughton's Mad Dog and Glory, Kenneth Branagh's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Michael Mann's Heat, Barry Levinson's Sleepers and Wag the Dog, Jerry Zaks' Marvin's Room, Tony Scott's The Fan, James Mangold's Copland, Alfonso Cuarón's Great Expectations, Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown, and A Bronx Tale, directed by De Niro.In addition, De Niro starred in John Frankenheimer's Ronin, Harold Ramis' Analyze This and Analyze That, Joel Schumacher's Flawless, Des McNuff's Rocky and Bullwinkle, Jay Roach's Meet The Parents, George Tillman's Men of Honor, John Herzfeld's Fifteen Minutes, Frank Oz's The Score, Tom Dey's Showtime, Michael Caton-Jones' City By The Sea, and Nick Hamm's Godsend. He recently starred in Mary McGuckian's The Bridge of San Luis Rey, DreamWorks' animated Shark Tale and Jay Roach's Meet the Fockers.De Niro takes pride in the development of his production company, Tribeca Productions, and the Tribeca Film Center, which he founded with Jane Rosenthal in 1988. Through Tribeca, he develops projects on which he serves in a combination of capacities, including producer, director and actor.

Tribeca's A Bronx Tale marked De Niro's directorial debut. Other Tribeca features include Thunderheart, Cape Fear, Mistress, Night and the City, The Night We Never Met, Faithful, Panther, Marvin's Room, Wag the Dog, Analyze This, Flawless, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Meet the Parents, Fifteen Minutes, Showtime, Analyze That and Meet the Fockers. In 1992, Tribeca TV was launched with the critically acclaimed series Tribeca. De Niro served as one of the series Executive Producers.

In 1998, Tribeca produced a miniseries for NBC, based on the life of Sammy The Bull Gravano.

Tribeca Productions is headquartered at De Niro's Tribeca Film Center, in the TriBeCa district of New York. The Film Center is a state-of-the-art office building designed for the film and television industry. The eight-story facility features office space, a screening room, banquet hall and restaurant, in addition to a full range of services for entertainment industry professionals.

DAKOTA FANNING (Emily Callaway) recently completed filming Dreamer, starring opposite Kurt Russell and Kris Kristofferson. A moving family drama set amidst the world of Kentucky's thoroughbred racing industry, the film is set for release next fall

Dakota stars opposite Tom Cruise and Tim Robbins in the upcoming War of the Worlds, directed by Steven Spielberg. Spielberg and Dakota previously worked together on the miniseries Taken, which the renowned filmmaker executive produced.

DreamWorks has committed to develop the definitive adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, to be written for Dakota by Emmy® winner Les Bohem (Taken).

Dakota began her career only four years ago, at age 6. Early on, she guest-starred on ER, The Practice, Malcolm in the Middle, Spin City, and CSI. On the big screen, Dakota starred opposite Sean Penn and Michelle Pfeiffer in I Am Sam, for which she won a BAFTA® award, and became the youngest actor ever to be nominated for a Screen Actors Guild® Award.

Shortly thereafter, she starred in Taken, which became the Sci-Fi Channel's highest rated show and won an Emmy for Best Mini-series.

In 2004's Man on Fire, directed by Tony Scott and released by Twentieth Century Fox, Dakota starred opposite Denzel Washington. Her performance won accolades across the globe. Dakota also co-starred in Trapped, opposite Charlize Theron, Sweet Home Alabama with Reese Witherspoon,

The Cat in the Hat, and Uptown Girls. Dakota is an avid reader, is learning to speak Spanish and French, plays the piano, knits, collects dolls and is having an awful lot of fun.

FAMKE JANSSEN (Katherine) reprised her X-Men role of Jean Grey in the box-office smash X2, and starred in the recent independent film Eulogy. Previously, Janssen starred in I Spy opposite Eddie Murphy and Owen Wilson, Don't Say a Word opposite Michael Douglas, and Made co-starring Jon Favreau and Vince Vaughn.

Janssen earned critical-acclaim for her performance opposite Jon Favreau in Valerie Breiman's Love and Sex, which premiered at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival. Her credits also include House on Haunted Hill opposite Geoffrey Rush, John Dahl's Rounders opposite Edward Norton and Matt Damon, and Woody Allen's Celebrity, opposite Kenneth Branagh and Leonardo DiCaprio. Additional film appearances include The Faculty, Deep Rising, The Gingerbread Man, Monument Avenue, City of Industry and the James Bond hit Goldeneye.

On television she had a memorable guest-starring role in several episodes of Nip/Tuck.

ELISABETH SHUE (Elizabeth Young) received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for her performance in Leaving Las Vegas, opposite Nicolas Cage. She also received a Best Actress award from the Los Angeles Film Critics, the Chicago Film Critics, the National Society of Film Critics, as well as nominations for an Independent Spirit Award, Golden Globe® Award and Screen Actors Guild Award. Shue's other film credits include The Karate Kid, Adventures in Babysitting, Cocktail, Soapdish, Radio Inside, The Underneath, The Saint, Palmetto, Cousin Bette, Deconstructing Harry, Molly and Hollow Man. In addition, Shue starred in Amy and Isabelle, an Oprah Winfrey production. Shue starred on Broadway in Richard Nelson's Some Americans Abroad.

AMY IRVING (Alison Callaway) first came to the attention of the film world in the 1970s, when she starred in two films from director Brian De Palma: Carrie and The Fury. Irving then starred in Voices, Honeysuckle Rose, The Competition, and Micki and Maude. She received an Oscar nomination for her role in Yentl and won a Golden Globe for her performance in Crossing Delancey.

Irving appeared in Tuck Everlasting and co-starred opposite Michael Douglas in Academy Award-winner Steven Soderbergh's Traffic. Irving also starred in the critically acclaimed film Bossa Nova, directed by her husband Bruno Barreto. Barreto also directed her in Carried Away and A Show of Force. Other feature films include Deconstructing Harry, I'm Not Rappaport and 13 Conversations About One Thing.

Irving trained at the American Conservatory Theater and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. On stage, she starred in Chekhov's Three Sisters, and received critical acclaim on Broadway for her work in Arthur Miller's Broken Glass, for which she was nominated for both the 1994 Drama Desk Award and The Outer Critics Circle Award®. Irving also starred in Broadway productions of Amadeus and Heartbreak House, for which she received another Drama Desk nomination, and she won an Obie® Award and Drama Desk nomination as Best Actress for her performance in Road to Mecca.

On television, Irving starred in the television movie The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics. She also starred in the hit mini-series Anastasia, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination, and appeared on Spin City, Law and Order: SVU, and several episodes of Alias.

DYLAN BAKER (Sheriff Hafferty) co-stars in the provocative Fox Searchlight drama Kinsey, and recently appeared in the box-office smash Spider-Man 2. He was honored with an IFP Gotham Award® and an IFP West Independent Spirit Award® nomination for his role as Bill Maplewood in the critically acclaimed film Happiness, directed by Todd Solondz.

Baker's additional feature film credits include Head of State, How to Deal, Road to Perdition, Changing Lanes, The Cell, Random Hearts, Committed, Requiem for a Dream, Celebrity, Simply Irresistible, True Blue, Disclosure, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Talk Radio, The Wizard of Loneliness, The Long Walk Home, Delirious and Passed Away.

Baker earned Tony Award® and Drama Desk Award nominations for his role as Prince in the Broadway production of Eastern Standard and an Obie Award for his performance in the Off-Broadway production of Not About Heroes. He most recently starred in The Sea of Tranquility at the Atlantic Theatre Company, and received rave reviews for his role in the Off-Broadway production of That Championship Season at the Second Stage Theatre.

Baker's television credits include Tom Hanks' HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, Stephen Bochco's courtroom drama Murder One and many other productions.

ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS

JOHN POLSON (Director) made his American feature film directorial debut with the hit thriller Swimfan, released by Twentieth Century Fox.

Polson is an award-winning actor and director as well as the founder of Tropfest, Australia's largest festival dedicated to short films. As a director, Polson's work includes three acclaimed short films as well as the feature film Siam Sunset, which received the prestigious Rail D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival as well as an Australian Film Institute Award® nomination for Best Film. In November 1997, Polson was awarded the Byron Kennedy Award at the AFI Awards for his contribution to the Australian film industry.

As an actor, Polson appeared in the box-office hit Mission: Impossible 2. Other film credits include Sirens, starring Hugh Grant, The Sum of Us, for which he received the Australian Film Critics Circle Award; and The Boys, which brought Polson the Best Supporting Actor Award from the Australian Film Institute. Polson also starred in Idiot Box, Prisoners of the Sun, the miniseries Kangaroo Palace and Vietnam, and the television production Dadah is Death. Polson remains active in theater, where he began his career.

ARI SCHLOSSBERG (Writer) was born and raised in New York City. He moved to Los Angeles eight years ago to write screenplays. Schlossberg credits his mother, author Connie Bruck, with giving him the diligence and discipline to pursue a career in screenwriting; and his father, poet Ben Schlossberg, with instilling in Ari the necessary creative spark. I got the best of both worlds from them, says Schlossberg.

HIDE AND SEEK is Schlossberg's first produced screenplay.

BARRY JOSEPHSON (Producer) is a film and television producer with a wide range of both feature film and television credits, including the recent Coen brothers film The Ladykillers, starring Tom Hanks, and the Twentieth Century Fox hit Like Mike, starring Bow Wow. Josephson is Executive Producer of the syndicated show Moving In, starring Pat Croce, for Sony Entertainment Television.

Josephson was Senior Vice President of Production and President of Worldwide Production for Columbia Pictures. During his tenure there, he was responsible for such hits as Men In Black, Air Force One, In The Line of Fire, The Fifth Element, Anaconda, Bad Boys, and The Professional. Previously, Josephson was with Joel Silver's Silver Pictures, working on pictures such as Die Hard 2 and Lethal Weapon 3. Prior to that, Josephson produced the films The Last Boy Scout and Ricochet. He also produced the critically acclaimed Maximum Bob, based on the Elmore Leonard novel, as well as the television series The Tick for Fox Broadcasting Company, and the cable series Tales from the Crypt.

Josephson is a founding member of Comic Relief, hosted by Robin Williams, Billy Crystal and Whoopi Goldberg. Comic Relief has raised millions of dollars to aid the plight of the homeless. In addition, Josephson played pivotal roles in the creation of the HBO Aspen Comedy Festival, the Commitment to Life Benefit (Supporting AIDS Project Los Angeles) and the Austin Film Festival.

Josephson helped found the production company Sandollar Films, whose credits include the feature film and series versions of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Josephson also worked for Lorimar Communications, overseeing the music division's interest in feature film and television programming. He began his career in personal management and contributed to the careers of performers Patti Labelle, Paula Abdul and Whoopi Goldberg, among others.

JOE CARACCIOLO, JR. (Executive Producer) began his career in film as a production manager on director Sidney Lumet's Running on Empty and The Verdict.

Most recently, Caracciolo produced Uptown Girls, a comedic New York fairy tale starring Brittany Murphy and Dakota Fanning, and the teen thriller Swimfan, directed by John Polson. Caracciolo's other feature films credits include James Foley's Glengarry Glen Ross, Jon Amiel's Copycat and The Man Who Knew Too Little, and writer-director John Waters' Serial Mom, Pecker and Cecil B. Demented.

DARIUSZ WOLSKI, ASC (Director of Photography) was Director of Photography on the smash hit Pirates of the Carribean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.

Wolski's other feature film credits include The Mexican, A Perfect Murder, Crimson Tide and Romeo is Bleeding. He has made over 100 music videos with artists including David Bowie, Sting, Neil Young, Elton John and Paula Abdul.

STEVEN JORDAN (Production Designer) began his career as Art Director on director Paul Mazursky's Enemies, a Love Story, and he was Art Director on the feature films Scenes from a Mall and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.

Jordan became a motion picture Production Designer on Untamed Heart. Since then, he has designed the films Rookie of the Year, The Brady Bunch, Clueless, Wild America, Never Been Kissed, Loser, Head of State and Raising Helen.

JEFFREY FORD (Editor) began his career as an Assistant Editor on the films Little Odessa, Assassins and As Good As It Gets. In recent years he has edited The Yards, One Hour Photo and Shattered Glass.

Ford attended the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television.

JOHN OTTMAN (Music) composed the score for and edited Fox's blockbuster X2. Ottman has applied this unusual combination of talents to three other Bryan Singer movies: Apt Pupil, The Usual Suspects and Public Access, plus Singer's upcoming Superman film. His work as an editor on The Usual Suspects earned him a BAFTA Award.

Upcoming films as a composer include Fox's comic book event picture Fantastic Four, and House of Wax. Other composing credits include Cellular The Cable Guy, Snow White: A Tale of Terror, Incognito, Halloween H20, Lake Placid, Goodbye Lover, Bubble Boy, HBO's Point of Origin, Pumpkin, Eight Legged Freaks and Trapped. Ottman received an Emmy nomination for the score of Barry Sonnenfeld's TV update of Fantasy Island. He also directed, edited and scored Urban Legends 2.